Chapter Forty-six A Dinner

  It only took a few days for Zhang Yao to get used to having lunch with Su Yifan at noon. Sometimes when Su Yifan came out late, Zhang Yao would linger around the school gate waiting for him.

  This silent girl would no longer show unease in front of Su Yifan, only her eyes still dodging the attention of strangers.

  In fact, Zhang Yao, such a slender and beautiful girl, is hard not to be stared at by many eyes. Every time she walks out of the school gate, there are always various passersby who keep turning their heads to look at her, no matter how much she tries to avoid it.

  Sometimes when walking on a crowded street, Su Yifan would naturally help Zhang Yao block the gaze of people looking at her.

  After all, Su Yifan is no longer as weak as he used to be. He is now full of confidence and has started learning how to protect others.

  The more times he protected Zhang Yao, the more Su Yifan hoped to find time to have a talk with her.

  On Sunday afternoon, Su Yifan skipped self-study class and first ran to the supermarket to buy a bunch of hot pot ingredients before calling Zhang Yao.

  Zhang Yao's mobile phone is an old Nokia model, slightly more advanced than the 1600 but still limited. However, the call quality is very good. The moment the call connects, Su Yifan can hear all sorts of lively sounds from Zhang Yao's classroom.

  This is not a self-study class, it's like an Indian market. Su Yifan felt that putting Zhang Yao in such a class was a kind of torture.

  Zhang Yao answered the phone and wouldn't speak up on her own, so Su Yifan asked straightforwardly: "Nothing going on tonight? Want to go eat hot pot with me?"

  Zhang Yao was silent on the other end of the phone.

  Su Yifan thought for a moment and said: "After dinner, I'll accompany you to the internet cafe to record songs, and then send you home, okay?"

  Zhang Yao still didn't speak.

  Su Yifan was a bit helpless: "How about this, do you think it's okay? Can we just send a text message to respond?"

  This time Zhang Yao answered Su Yifan with action, and she quickly hung up the phone.

  Su Yifan waited for a while, and then the message vibrated and jumped out on the screen of her Apple phone.

  "Good."

  Su Yifan smiled and typed with one hand: "I'll pick you up after school."

  Compared to Su Yifan who still had to skip class to prepare a hot pot, Su Xiaqing was undoubtedly a divine being - Su Yifan didn't even know when she was actually busy, he just needed to call her and Su Xiaqing would always answer, and always have time.

  "Hey sis, can I borrow your car this afternoon?"

  "Alright, which car are you taking?" Su Xiaoqing teased with a smile, "Are you going out for a candlelight dinner with a girl?"

  "No, no, I'll go to the secret base first and wait for you." Su Yifan was already used to Su Xiaqing's indulgence. "I bought hot pot ingredients, we'll have hot pot tonight, and I've also invited Zhang Yao."

  "Hmm, are you ready to make a move on the little girl?" Su Xiaoqing still smiled, "Zhang Yao is very good, your taste is really not bad."

  Su Yifan was slightly sweating: "Where did you think I was going... I wanted to find Zhang Yao to have dinner and talk about her own affairs."

  "This is still a concern for little girls." Su Xiaoqing said with a smile, "You've been working hard lately, I heard you've done a lot of homework?"

  Su Yifan did not deny it: "I've read a lot of information."

  "Have you understood?"

  "There's something I want to talk to her about tonight." Su Yifan carried the things out of the supermarket, "I'll go ahead and wait for you over there."

  "We haven't even decided which car yet."

  "The cheapest!" Su Yifan gritted his teeth, "I don't want to be surrounded by onlookers."

  Su Xiaqing burst out laughing on the other end of the phone.

  Su Yifan, who is often not at home, has a lot of experience in buying ingredients. The hot pot supplies are bought with great care and are quite cost-effective. In fact, Su Xiaqing was worried that his pocket money would not be enough, so she wanted to put a bank card in his wallet, but was rejected by Su Yifan.

  Su Yifan couldn't even bear to sponge off Su Xiaoxiao without feeling guilty, let alone accept direct monetary gifts.

  In fact, Su Yifan's parents' laissez-faire policy towards their child also includes pocket money. Su Yifan's allowance is not less than that of many of his classmates. It's just that it's really unfortunate to be compared with someone like Chen Xin, making him look pitiful.

  Su Yifan put things in the refrigerator one by one, without even looking at those expensive ingredients inside.

  Since Su Yifan intended to treat himself, he wouldn't use those things that Su Xiaqing had bought.

  When washing vegetables halfway in the kitchen, Su Xiaqing arrived. After being led in by Su Yifan, Su Xiaqing also followed to the kitchen and leaned against the door to watch Su Yifan wash vegetables.

  "You're quite skilled, don't you usually cook for yourself?"

  Su Yifan smiled awkwardly: "Not really. Sometimes I help out at home."

  "Do you need help?"

  "No need, just sit down, Qing Jie." Su Yifan put the mushrooms in water again, cut some scallions, turned around to wipe his hands and walked out of the kitchen.

  Su Xiaqing tossed the car key to the young man: "The car is downstairs, it's that Golf."

  "Thanks, Qing Jie." Su Yifan glanced at the time, "I'll go pick up Zhang Yao then."

  "Why don't we just call Cheng Shui'er over too?" Su Xiaqing suggested, "Four people eating hot pot would be more lively."

  "Then there's no way to talk to Zhang Yao alone?" Su Yifan scratched his head, "Zhang Yao is very shy."

  "What's there to be afraid of? You stay here and see Zhang Yao off, say whatever you want. I'll take care of the rest, why don't you call Yang Bingbing over too?"

  Su Yifan was speechless: "This is too chaotic..."

  "How interesting! Go shout it out! Bring back a cart of beauties and make that Chen Xin, who's been competing with you for fame and fortune, die from anger."

  Su Yifan couldn't help but admit that Su Xiaqing's reason was good, and he also wanted to see Chen Xin in a flustered state.

  "Then I'll give it a try?"

  "It's about time." Su Xiaoqing gave Su Yifan a punch, "Take out your courage! What's the big deal about asking a few beauties to dinner?"

  Su Yifan thought to himself, it's also important to be mentally calm when facing the girls after overcoming his psychological barriers. Holding the car key and going downstairs, Su Yifan started by calling Cheng Shui first.

  "Are you free tonight?"

  "Invite me?" Cheng Shuiying smiled, "Okay, of course I have time."

  "I'll pick you up and we can have hot pot at my place." Su Yifan said straightforwardly, "Ling Jie and Zhang Yao will be there too."

  "Zhang Yao?" Cheng Shui Xin was surprised for a moment, but didn't ask further. "Alright, so you skipped class this afternoon to prepare dinner?"

  "It doesn't matter if I don't attend self-study class," Su Yifan said. "Anyway, Teacher Wang won't use this to punish me now."

  "Sounds good." Cheng Shuiying smiled and said, "Then I'll wait for you, don't drive a broken-down car, okay?"

  "Tricycle." Su Yifan rarely told a joke and then hung up the phone.

  Yang Bingbing was taken aback by the invitation: "Invite me to dinner?"

  "Uh, and there's Cheng Shui Xin and Zhang Yao." Su Yi Fan became more fluent as he spoke, "And Qing Jie."

  Yang Bingbing thought of Su Xiaoqing's calm and composed demeanor and immediately agreed without much hesitation.

  "Alright, where can I find you? I heard you skipped class this afternoon."

  "It's just skipping a class, does the whole school need to know? " Su Yifan said helplessly, "Wait, I'll go pick you up."

  Yang Bingbing murmured an "uh-huh" and didn't say anything else.

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  A high school's weekend evening is lively, the "Post-Class Luxury Car Show" at the entrance stretches for hundreds of meters along the road, and various parents who are eager to see their children succeed use their eager eyes to secretly compare with each other at the school gate.

  The sky darkened early, and Su Yifan slowly stopped the Golf at the school gate just as the streetlights around came on. Chen Xin was leading his two followers towards the school gate, flauntingly raising the remote control in his hand to honk the horn of the Jaguar.

  Su Yifan couldn't help but admit that Chen Xin's mental quality was also good. Having been beaten by himself just a few days ago, he now had an expression as if he had forgotten the humiliation of the time. Su Yifan thought that his own endurance was not bad in the past, and now looking at Chen Xin, it seemed that his endurance was also very good.

  Chen Xin saw Su Yifan as soon as he came out of the school gate, because the golf cart was parked between the parking lot and the school entrance, and Su Yifan had rolled down the window, making himself a very obvious target.

  Now Chen Xin didn't have the courage to confront Su Yifan again, he really couldn't tell if Su Yifan would suddenly jump up and punch him. However, seeing that Golf, Chen Xin still sneered and laughed, with two followers backing him up behind, Chen Xin drove the car in front of Su Yifan and honked the horn twice in a showy manner.

  Golf and Jaguar are not in the same league, Chen Xin thinks he has the qualifications to mock Su Yifan for driving such a bad car.

  "Look at that kid, driving a broken-down golf cart and daring to show off in front of people, even parking it right in front of the school gate."

  Two followers burst out laughing loudly, trying to make their laughter reach Su Yifan's ears.

  Su Yifan didn't even look at Chen Xin, he was too lazy to bother with this young master who had completely lost the ability to pretend.

  Jian Su Yifan ignored himself, Chen Xin felt that this was a sign of guilt, and turned up the car's stereo again.

  Su Yifan didn't even look at Chen Xin, took out a PSP from his pocket and started playing games with his head down.

  Not long after, Zhang Yao came out first, walking quickly with her head down, and only showed a little excitement when she saw Su Yifan waving at her, then walked over to sit in the passenger seat.

  "Zhang Yao......" Chen Xin was shocked, "I'd even forgotten that our school had someone like this!"

  More and more people came out of the school gate, some got on the bus, others waited for the bus, and many students walked slowly in the cold wind with two or three friends. The parents who were picking up their children also gradually decreased in number.

  Then Chen Xin saw Yang Bingbing smiling and saying goodbye to her classmates, walking straight towards Su Yifan's golf cart, laughing and saying something to Su Yifan before getting in the car.

  Chen Xin's eyes almost popped out, he had never seen Yang Bingbing smile at a boy like that before!

  The last one was Cheng Shui Xin, who walked out with a relaxed smile on his face. After seeing Su Yi Fan, he even waved his hand, as if afraid that others would not know that he was going to leave with Su Yi Fan, and got into the car.

  Chen Xin felt like he was going crazy.

  A Volkswagen Golf, pulled three beauties, and basically all of them got on board voluntarily!

  The in-car audio of the Jaguar was still blasting Lady Gaga's new song, Chen Xin stared blankly as Su Yifan's Golf drove slowly past him at a speed of less than 40 kilometers per hour.

  As if deliberately showing off.

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  It's been almost ten years since I last used this phrase, using it once today...